7.03.2012

recently noted quotes

"jargon marks the place where thinking has been. it becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term, a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name." -- marjorie garber ["academic instincts"]

"paying attention, for long periods of time, is a form of performance athleticism. like running a marathon, it requires practice and training to get the most out of it." -- clay a johnson ["finding focus"]

"I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema
grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be
found etched on our ground glass" -- henri cartier-bresson "the decisive moment"

"The prepared mind sooner or later finds something important and does it." -- richard w. hamming

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its
children." - dietrich bonhoeffer [quote found in steve mccurry's blog]

abelson's laws:

1. chance is lumpy2. overconfidence abhors uncertainty3. never flout a convention just once4. don't talk greek if you don't know the english translation.5. if you have nothing to say, don't say anything.6. there is no free hunch.7. you can't see the dust if you don't move the couch.8. criticism is the mother of methodology.

-- robert p. abelson ["statistics as principled argument"]

"high dynamic range is no substitute for high creative range." -- oz

"Shadows are perhaps, the areas in which we dream." -- bruce percy ["personal exposures"]